Based on these stories, there are regulatory weaknesses in the wholesale
industry larger than those that allowed the incidents of 9-11. Also,
perhaps naively, I assumed there was a tracking mechanism for CS to
attempted to limit their distribution to semi-legitimate patients. I no
longer believe this.

"Between July and December, 2001, the online pharmacy filled 18,499
prescriptions . . . Nearly all were for controlled substances."
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Story about ease of CS purchases online:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/washpost/20031020/ts_washpost/a5
0567_2003oct19&e=2&ncid=

and . . .
story about distributors and wholesalers:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/washpost/20031019/ts_washpost/a4
4908_2003oct18&e=3